My First Experience of the InternetWe remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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It was 1994...using Lynx, a terminal-based browser (think analogue teletext).
I remember a friend of mine asking me to get some information from an Australian site - I am damned if I can remember what it was.
I mentioned this in passing to my Mum (I was 14), who went apeshit. She would not accept that I had not just made a very long phonecall to Australia, despite a lengthy explanation that I was connected to a UK ISP. Fortunately my old man, a senior telecoms engineer at BT, put her right. Just as well, really.
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Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Wed 28 Mar 2012, 14:40,
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